(For some reason, Blogger didn't follow through and publish this entry I wrote last week. Here it is again, and still timely.)
Fred Thompson, stealth Republican candidate for President, essentially made his first appearance as a would-be party nominee recently in a swiftly-concocted and stunningly effective little video mocking left wing propagandist Michael Moore. (For the resulting video, link here.)
Now, almost overnight, Thompson has a website up. It's still under construction but is already rather slick. Check it out here.
Thompson's increasingly apparent seriousness as a candidate, which will allegedly be confirmed sometime after July 4, is either going to upset all prognostications up to this point or prove to be a colossal flash-in-the-pan. I don't think it's going to be anything in between. His fledgling political media efforts already show a surprising mastery of symbol and message, something the Bushies have been failing miserably at since the 2004 elections.
Fred's off-the-cuff efforts have been somewhat less effective. If we start seeing more of the "mastery" part, however, the former Tennessee senator and now-retiring "Law & Order" star might just be the guy to get hapless Republicans back in the game, just in time for 2008.
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